Wednesday, April 27, 2011

"Kidnapped"




This story takes place in the 1750s in a village called Essendean. The main character of this book is a young guy named David Bulfour. After the death of David's parents, he didn't have someone who could take care of him. The minister of Essendean Mr.Campbell decided that it will be a good idea if he moved to the "House of Shaws" in a city called Cramond. There the only person that David had was his uncle Ebenezer Balfour. David decided to go with his uncle, but after he was there living with him he knew that his uncle was a mean person that wanted to kill him. One day in the morning a ship arrived to the deck. Captain Hoseason wanted to talk to David's uncle Ebenezer about some business. Ebenezer decided to take David to meet Capt. Hoseason. After he had meet the Captain David saw that his uncle was returning to shore, and as soon as he saw his uncle leaving he was kidnapped. David was going to be sold as a slave to work in plantations. While he was in the ship he meet a guy called Alan which was about to be attack by the members of the ship because he was a wealthy person. David was suppose to bring Capt. Hoseason something to drink, when he heard them talking about how wealthy the white man aboard the ship was, and that the should come at night and robbed him, David rapidly went to Alan's cabin, and told him everything that was going on. Alan and David were ready so they waited tilt night with guns and other weapons that Alan had. When the finally arrived to Alan's cabin, David started to shoot his gun . At the end of the battle their were three dead guys and two wounded counting Capt. Hoseason. After that Alan And David decided to go to shore. After they had scaped from the shi they had a hard time finding a place in which they could stay until they could leave that place. After hiding for a long time in British land they knew that if they were found they would be killed. David decided to meet with a lawyer that can help him get out of there. After a few days of being there, he had finally talked to a lawyer that would help him go back to Essendean , the city were he was born, and his parents had died in. He knew that if he goes back to Essendean he would be safe. David didn't want to leave his friend Alan alone so he made sure that Alan went back to were he lived. After a few more days David returned to Essendean and told Mr.Campbell everything that had happened to him during all that time.











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